The RFPs for 2004-05 funding for graduate student fellowships, investigator-initatied grants, and interdisciplinary team grants are now available. Proposals are due January 30, 2004. Applications will be reviewed by the TSR&TP Executive Committee at their spring meeting and notification letters will be mailed out in May. All awards will begin on July 1, 2004.

In addition, UC graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are invited to submit applications for travel funds to initiate intercampus collaborations involving projects related to UC TSR&TP research needs.

The TSR&TP is soliciting applications for a new lead campus program to begin July 2004. Applications are due February 27, 2004. See the RFP for details.

As part of an effort to become more involved in policy research, the TSR&TP has teamed up with the California Policy Research Center (CPRC) to sponsor projects in environmental policy. Requests for Proposals are issued by the CPRC.

Two projects have been funded so far. The first project at UC Santa Cruz, Beyond Aquisition: Management and Stewardship of California's Conservation Estate, was awarded to Environmental Studies Professor Daniel Press to evaluate California's land use policies. In the second project, Urban and Regional Planning Professor Raul Lejano of UC Irvine will produce an issue paper on Combining Regulatory and Community Strategies for Addressing Disproportionate Exposures to Cumulative Risk.

The 2004-05 CPRC call for proposals for policy-related research is requesting notification letters by 12/5/03 and proposals are due 1/7/04.

The 17th Annual TSR&TP Research Symposium will be held at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego, April 23-24, 2004. The agenda will feature keynote addresses on biomonitoring, a panel of TSR&TP alumni who will speak about life after graduate school and the twists and turns of their career paths, and a special lunchtime cruise on Mission Bay aboard the William D. Evans steamboat. Raffle prizes and the winner of the Best Poster Award contest will be announced during the cruise. Posters will be judged on their ability to communicate science to a broad audience, scientific content, creativity, and visual presentation. The student with the best poster will receive $500 in travel funds to present their research at a scientific meeting.

All faculty and students who are funded by the TSR&TP during the 2003-04 academic year will receive a personalized invitation via email. The general public is also welcome to attend the Symposium for a nominal meal charge.

Former trainees of the TSR&TP can sign up on our alumni list to receive an all-expense-paid invitation to the Symposium.

A detailed agenda and registration information will be posted on this website soon.

TSR&TP Welcomes New Members to Executive Committee

Three new members have joined the TSR&TP Executive Committee: Sally Holbrook from Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara, Thomas Kearney from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at UC San Francisco, and Barbara Hargis of the Health, Safety and Radiation Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Executive Committee is responsible for strategic planning, setting policy, reviewing proposals for funding, reviewing lead campus programs, providing administration oversight, publicizing the TSR&TP, and evaluating the effectiveness of the program. The TSR&TP welcomes the expertise of these new members to our committee.